Bryan Gunn and the quickest-ever managerial sackings
Published 18:25 14/08/09 By By Steve Anglesey
Bryan Gunn lasted just two games of the season – one a 4-0 victory! - before his dismissal by Norwich City today.
He joins a short but incredible list of gaffers dumped just days into a new campaign.
NINE MATCHES: Stuart Gray took over Southampton as caretaker after Glenn Hoddle walked out for Spurs in April 2001and got the job full-time in summer. Six defeats out of nine at the start of the season – five of them suffered without scoring a goal in reply – saw him make a swift exit.
SEVEN MATCHES: After telling his Leeds players to throw all their medals they'd won under Don Revie into the bin “because you earned them by cheating”, Brian Clough oddly found it hard to get the champions to respond and was axed after one win, three draws and three defeats at the start of 1974/75.
FIVE MATCHES: Ruud Gullit got the bullet from Newcastle after starting 1999/2000 with one draw and four defeats – one of the losses being the infamous Tyne/Wear derby in which he left Alan Shearer on the bench. The Dutchman refused to pick up any compensation.
FOUR MATCHES: Newcastle again, where the goodwill of a fifth-place finish the previous season Sir Bobby Robson evaporated when Sir Bobby Robson took just two points from a possible 12 at the start of 2004/05. Chairman Freddy Shepherd labelled himself “the man who shot Bambi”. Peter Reid also lasted four games of the 1993/94 Premiership campaign at Manchester City before being dumped by chairman Peter 'Brillo Pad' Swales.
TWO MATCHES: Rupert Lowe's itchy trigger finger twitched again in August 204, when Paul Sturrock got the boot from Southampton after just two games of the season – one of them a thrilling 3-2 comeback victory against Blackburn.
ONE MATCH: John Toshack walked as Welsh boss just one game into his first spell in charge – a 3-1 defeat to Norway which saw him booed off the field.
AND ONE WHO DIDN'T MAKE IT TO OPENING DAY...: Leroy Rosenior was looking forward to his second spell in charge of Torquay when he returned to the club in May 2007. Ten minutes later, a new consortium took over the Gulls and dismissed him. Said Rosenior: “Obviously, they thought I'd done a fantastic job after 10 minutes and let me go.”
